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Date Sent: 2025-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, December 21, 2025 |
Is Yen Carry Trade's unwind about to trigger a repo market meltdown? Let's dive into it
Silver: Who is Front-Running the US 232-Tariff Decision? -- SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: December 20, 2025 Edition -- Putin Says He's Ready for Peace -- How Much More Will Mortgage Rates Have to Drop to Spur Home Sales? -- Barbed-Wire, Tear-Gas, & Water-Cannons: Brussels Battles Protesting Farmers... -- Act of War? -- Explore the Trump Family Empire, 268 Pieces, and a New Deal Today -- Mirrored concrete for cheap solar energy -- All Government Is Dictatorial Because All Government Is Totalitarian -- Medicaid Fraud in Minnesota at least $9 Billion Since 2018 -- Pan American Silver Corp. (PAAS) -- Aren't Markets Full of Favoritism, Self-Dealing, and Corruption? -- Australia Launching Gun Crackdown in Response to Jihad Massacre at Bondi Beach -- China Says Region Closer To War Due To US Record Taiwan Arms Package -- The Crisis Of Disability In America -- A Russian-US 'New Détente' Could Revolutionize The Global Economic Architecture -- EU "Russia Confiscation" Summit Ends In Failure As Brussels Quietly Paves Way For Eurobond -- Trump Suspends $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown -- "F*ck You!": Unhinged DC Police Chief Cites Bible, Rages At Haters In Exit Ceremony -- Impeach Bondi? Trump Administration Fails to Release Epstein Documents -- Pirates Of The Caribbean -- The DYSTOPIAN Future of News: How AI Is DECIDING WHAT YOU THINK!! -- "No Arrests!" But More 'Developments'... -- Pay Attention: NORTHCOM General Says He Is Willing To Authorize Attacks On US Soil -- Congressman Thomas Massie on Epstein Files Transparency Act Release Deadline - 12/18/2025 -- Israel Just Got EXPOSED - The World No Longer Believe Them | Max Blumenthal -- Russia Is in a Security Dilemma ?" Europe Pretends To Be in One -- Get Schiffty Music Video | Rick and Morty | Adult Swim -- White Erasure in Today's Ads. Why is fake diversity pushed so hard in ads? --
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News Link • Treasury
Is Yen Carry Trade's unwind about to trigger a repo market meltdown? Let's dive into the mec
12-20-2025
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Linkedin
The Yen Carry Trade - borrowing low-yield yen to invest in higher-yielding assets like U.S. Treasuries, credit, and equities - has ballooned into a multi-trillion-dollar structure after decades of BOJ suppression of rates and FX volatility.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver: Who is Front-Running the US 232-Tariff Decision?
12-20-2025
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Zero Hedge
Silver is rising for reasons the market is not admitting. Behind refinery bottlenecks, quiet accumulation, and an overlooked policy deadline, a different framework may be forming.
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Donna Hancock
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: December 20, 2025 Edition
12-20-2025
John Semmens
Minnesota Welfare Fraud Surges Past $9 Billion
This week, acting US Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joe Thompson reported that "in addition to the billion dollars of fraud previously discovered another $9 billion has gone missing. The magni
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News Link • Russia
Putin Says He's Ready for Peace
12-20-2025
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INFOWARS
Addressing the Russian nation during a marathon news conference, President Putin said he believes "President Trump is making serious efforts to bring this conflict to an end. As I've said many times, I believe he is doing this with complete sinc
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News Link • Housing
How Much More Will Mortgage Rates Have to Drop to Spur Home Sales?
12-20-2025
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Mish Talk
It's not that simple because one needs to factor in home prices. But we can look in isolation.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Act of War?
12-20-2025
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Russell Brand - Rumble
The U.S. announces the seizure of a sanctioned oil tanker transporting Venezuelan crude to Iran, sparking debate over whether the move is law enforcement or imperial overreach.
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News Link • Trump Family
Explore the Trump Family Empire, 268 Pieces, and a New Deal Today
12-20-2025
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Mish Talk
Trump announced a new vaporware deal announced today. It ties fusion to Trump media.
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News Link • Energy
Mirrored concrete for cheap solar energy
12-20-2025
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Sergiy Yurko - YouTube.com
This is one of my experiments. These mirrors focus solar radiation here where the radiation creates high temperatures to generate steam.
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News Link • Government
All Government Is Dictatorial Because All Government Is Totalitarian
12-20-2025
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lewrockwell.com - Gary Barnett
First and foremost, let me define terms and clarify language for all those who will assume opinions about the title of this essay without first thinking.
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News Link • Scams
Medicaid Fraud in Minnesota at least $9 Billion Since 2018
12-20-2025
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INFOWARS
President Trump has called Minnesota a "hub of fraudulent money laundering activity" under its Democrat governor, Tim Walz
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Aren't Markets Full of Favoritism, Self-Dealing, and Corruption?
12-20-2025
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Future of Freedom Foundation - George Leef
In a book I recently had to read - it certainly was not for pleasure - I came across a revealing line of thought from the "progressive" author. The book is Nicholas Lemann's Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testi
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News Link • Australia
Australia Launching Gun Crackdown in Response to Jihad Massacre at Bondi Beach
12-20-2025
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INFOWARS
PM Albanese announces new firearms 'buy back' program
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News Link • Taiwan
China Says Region Closer To War Due To US Record Taiwan Arms Package
12-20-2025
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Zero Hedge
China on Friday heaped more condemnation on Washington's approving a record-setting $11.1 billion weapons package for Taiwan this week, warning that the deal risks turning the island into a "powder keg" and plunging the region into "military confront
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News Link • Human Rights
The Crisis Of Disability In America
12-20-2025
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Zero Hedge
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has an ongoing household survey to provide a snapshot of where we are in jobs and the labor market generally.
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News Link • Russia
A Russian-US 'New Détente' Could Revolutionize The Global Economic Architecture
12-20-2025
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Zero Hedge
This vision aligns with the new National Security Strategy's (NSS) focus on securing critical resource supply chains and can prospectively be expanded to aid the US' allies with this for further advancing its goals.
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News Link • European Union
EU "Russia Confiscation" Summit Ends In Failure As Brussels Quietly Paves Way For Eurobond
12-20-2025
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Zero Hedge
The EU summit held in Brussels on December 18â€"19 was supposed to deliver two fundamental decisions. First, it was meant to address the expropriation of frozen Russian assets held at Euroclear. Second, it was expected to ratify the Mercosur trade ag
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News Link • Free Speech
Trump Suspends $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown
12-20-2025
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Zero Hedge
The Trump administration has delivered a major blow to UK-US relations by suspending a massive $40 billion Tech Prosperity Deal, citing Britain's aggressive censorship regime as a direct threat to American tech giants and their ability to operate f
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News Link • Corruption
"F*ck You!": Unhinged DC Police Chief Cites Bible, Rages At Haters In Exit Ceremony
12-20-2025
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Zero Hedge
Disgraced DC Police Chief Pamela Smith appeared completely unhinged during her exit speech at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters on Friday, shouting, "To all my haters, f*ck you."
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News Link • Trump Administration
Impeach Bondi? Trump Administration Fails to Release Epstein Documents
12-20-2025
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Mish Talk
House members discuss impeaching Pam Bondi, Trump's Attorney General.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The DYSTOPIAN Future of News: How AI Is DECIDING WHAT YOU THINK!!
12-20-2025
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https://pressfortruth.ca
AI large language models are increasingly being used to write up news summaries, headlines and content that catch your attention, but what's missing from the discussion is how ostensibly "accurate" information is selected, framed and emphasized
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News Link • DOJ-Department of justice
"No Arrests!" But More 'Developments'...
12-20-2025
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https://www.zerohedge.com,by James Howard Kunstler
The frantic ceremonies of Christmas shopping climax now. . . the stockings are hung by the chimney with care. . . and the republic judders into the darkest season of an evil era.
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News Link • Military
Pay Attention: NORTHCOM General Says He Is Willing To Authorize Attacks On US Soil
12-20-2025
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https://thefreethoughtproject.com, Don Via Jr.
A four-star general has affirmed a willingness to carry out strikes inside the United States against those the administration deems as threats.
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